Day 10 of 30: Global Poetry Writing Month and National Poetry Writing Month
Today's NaPoWriMo challenge is to write a “book spine” poem. This involves taking a look at your bookshelves, and rearranging the titles to create a poem.
I liked this kinesetic way of working: creating a poem without writing or sitting at the computer, but by hanging out with my treasured books. A librarian's dream!
"The Tao of Physics in Five Parts"
I.
The tao of physics is
fire in the mind,
the magic of awareness,
an eloquent eye.
II.
The two truths about love are:
1. kiss that frog
2. be here now
III.
The rise and fall of great powers
are reduced to three things:
1. essays on love,
2. forks over knives.
3. how the hippies saved physics
IV.
Oh, Habibi.
A reflection on Islamic art is
the new Persian kitchen --
a catalog of peculiar inventions:
Lawrence in Arabia,
the interpreter of maladies
the Alaskan bootlegger's Bible
V.
The wonders of the universe come down to this:
when women were birds,
they wept tears of love,
they built singing schools, and dreamt
bird dreams that
hit the ground running.
© Kat Shamash, April 10, 2016
This is the second one of these that I really like. Interersting prompt. Well done!
Posted by: Pat | Sunday, 10 April 2016 at 08:49 PM
Thanks, Pat! This was fun! Imagine what poetry could be created in a library!
Posted by: Kat Shamash | Monday, 11 April 2016 at 12:15 AM